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Clip In Touch launches next personalized messaging solutions

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Clip In Touch Ltd. has launched its latest family of personalized messaging solutions. Designed with an easy to use interface, the solutions allow mobile phone and web users to create individualized video messages with that extra personal touch. With just a few simple clicks, users can mix video, music, text and images to make the personal appear professional. The completed message can be sent either over the web, mobile phone network or both.

Using Clip In Touch’s services, users can express their true thoughts and not feel restricted by standardized messages. The new solutions allow users to convey their true expressions more easily, using a range of images, voice and text. Users can either create messages from their own unique video, music and text content, or choose from a large pool of ready made templates that can be used or edited to give a personal look and feel.

Originally posted on January 29, 2008 @ 6:43 pm

U.S. Marine Corps selects Jabber to provide communication and collaboration solutions

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jabber.pngJabber announced that the U.S. Marine Corps has selected the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP) as a comprehensive communication and collaboration solution to include instant messaging (IM), persistent group chat, presence capabilities, gateways for federation with Session Initiation Protocol/Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIP/SIMPLE) and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) messaging services, and software development kits (SDKs) for custom development. As part of the agreement, Jabber will also provide professional services to include virtualization integration consultation, custom training, and architecture and engineering support.

The Marine Corps has procured a total of 283,000 licenses of Jabber XCP supporting active duty and reserve Marines, civilian employees, and contractors. The enterprise licensing agreement (ELA), valued at more than $3.4 million, will enable the Marine Corps to integrate Jabber XCP with new and legacy information systems over the next three years. Execution of this ELA will enable members of the Marine Corps to use Jabber XCP on tactical systems while deployed in support of military operations, or in garrison. The Marine Corps will also leverage Jabber Messenger for the web, an ultra thin, zero-footprint web-client that is easily administered and uses minimal bandwidth. Jabber Messenger for the Web will enable alternative work arrangements and other work activities where a client-side application cannot, or should not, be installed on the user desktop.

Originally posted on January 16, 2008 @ 12:23 pm

AOL launches real-time IM for deaf and hard of hearing users

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AOL revealed that it is now testing the first real-time instant messaging (IM) feature targeted to deaf and hard of hearing users. Built with guidance from Gallaudet University and the Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this feature is in the latest beta version 6.8 of the popular AIM software.

The new real-time IM feature within AIM enhances instant message conversations by enabling users to see each letter that a buddy types rather than waiting for a friend to press the send button to view and read a message. This enables deaf users to respond and react to words as they are typed just as hearing people would do as words are spoken in a voice conversation.

To access this new feature, users simply click on “Actions” and then “Real-Time IM” from within an instant message window. A user may also highlight a buddy on his or her Buddy List and press Ctrl+R on the keyboard to initiate real-time IM. Both the IM sender and receiver must have the version of AIM that includes the real-time IM functionality to use the feature.

Originally posted on January 15, 2008 @ 3:44 pm

meebo’s hits another milestone with over 20 million unique users per month

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meebo.pngmeebo announced a significant milestone in user adoption. In addition to reaching 6.5 million unique users monthly at meebo.com, the company has seen adoption and usage of meebo rooms widgets grow substantially from the May 2007 launch. In November alone, 16.5 million unique users visited meebo widgets distributed across the Web by partners and users. Combining users of both meebo.com and meebo widgets, the company now estimates its reach at more than 20 million people in November 2007.

Today, meebo also announced that it has tailored meebo rooms, Partner Edition, to function seamlessly inside Facebook applications. Social network application providers BuddyMedia, (fluff)Friends, RockYou, Slide, The Broth and WaterCooler, Inc. have begun implementing meebo rooms, Partner Edition, to connect people live with their friends directly inside highly-trafficked applications.

Beginning next year, meebo rooms, Partner Edition, will give developers a hassle-free revenue stream for integrating live interaction functionality into their communities and applications. meebo will run unobtrusive, user-friendly and engaging ads inside meebo rooms and will then share a portion of the revenue with partners.

Newly-released Partner Edition functionalities include:

• Brand customization and Flash skinning. Partner Edition gives brands full control of the look and feel of their meebo rooms to create a seamless user and design experience between your brand and meebo technology.

• Integration with Facebook’s existing registration system. Facebook Edition authenticates logged user sessions and lets users take their registered names and user photos into the room with them, without requiring a meebo account.

• Automated capacity spillover. Designed for highly-trafficked application and canvas pages, new rooms spawn automatically when capacity is reached.

• Advertising tracking. Partners can seamlessly embed and track advertising in a room’s media queue to monetize traffic inside meebo rooms.

• Traffic and data reporting. Facebook Edition offers enhanced traffic and data reporting capability to measure campaign effectiveness and results.

Originally posted on December 13, 2007 @ 10:21 am

Me.dium integrates Jabber XCP to social browsing

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medium.pngJabber, Inc. announced that Me.dium, Inc. is utilizing the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP) for presence and instant messaging (IM) capabilities in its social browsing application. Me.dium is a social browsing plug-in that allows people to see what other people are doing online around them and to interact in real time. Me.dium graphically connects users with others doing similar things, allows them to browse with their friends, and enables users to interact with others in their real-time community.

When a user in the Me.dium network moves from one website to another, the server receives a notification that the user’s location has changed. This information is aggregated across the Me.dium network to seek similar content based on the browsing activity of other Me.dium users. Me.dium streams the data back to the user’s browser and displays a map showing who is currently on that recommended content and offers an opportunity for users to initiate one-to-one or group chats, add new users to private chats, post messages to the online community, and follow each other around the web.

Originally posted on December 4, 2007 @ 3:58 pm